I Think My Knife is Junk

I paid like $13 for this piece of junk on Amazon. This thing is made in Switzerland (like chocolates and stuff). Wish I would have gone custom.

I would throw it away couldn't even cut of your leg

Good grief, that's hideous!!

The knife looks OK, though.

Legs don't see much sunshine huh.....

The question is, how long will it hold that edge?

I can sharped a piece of angle iron that will shave just as good. It doesn't last though.

Looks like at least 3-4 inches.....

Are we cutting meat or trying to chop down a telephone pole?

For meat, it may need a couple licks on a steel during processing, which is partly to clean all the fat off the blade.
For the latter, I don’t know and don’t really care.

Are there any good, sensible testing procedures around, besides using it? If so I’ll try it, you know, for science and stuff. I’m not going to try to cut down a mesquite tree or anything though... I have a chainsaw for that.

I wish I bought all knives for cutting; but that’s not reality, you buy because it’s a disease.

I am thinking that since victoronix is one of the go to knives in the meat cutting industry, probably quite a while.

Truth

At least you didn't spend too much, seems to cut good and if you ever decide to shave your legs it'll do the job.

Idk.... that’s about ten times more than I spend on razors... for me face.

Just messing with you bro, if it cuts and works for you and you're happy with it, it's a winner.

I can't buy the material to make a knife for $13.00, so you got a good deal.

I seen better legs in a bucket of chicken. Oh wait, this is about knives. I got nothing.

It all depends how often you shave your legs.

I have a set of 4 Victorinox knives that I carry on the vet truck. One similar to the one in the OP, a straight boning knife, and a skinning knife. There's also a filet knife that came with the set but I don't use it much.
Are they cheap? yep. But if you go into any meat processing plant in the US, you'll probably find Victorinox knives.

I use them to cut post mortems on cows, deer, goats, what ever. They sharpen super fast with the little hand held carbide sharpener and hold the edge reasonably well.

The sharpener does remove a good amount of steel and will shorten the life of the blade, but for the price, I'll just buy more knives.

Do they stack up to the awesome customs made on here and a lot of places? No, but they are still good knives that work very well for the intended purpose.

Plan to get another set for my home deer processing.

I host the Maine Meat Cutting School for the University of Maine. We bring in one of the top Meat Science teachers in the USA to lecture and teach cutting. He has a set of Victrinox he has used for 18 years that show wear from sharpening, but keep going. We give all students a 6" Victrinox boning knife who attend the course, and Dr. Rentfrow likes to say they come sharp enough to cut through your soul with the factory edge. They are good hard steel that require some effort to sharpen, but stay sharp a long time. I have a complete set, and I am continually impressed how well they hold an edge. Our local supplier sells victrinox 6" boning knives for $18. As said above, they are standard issue in every packing plant I have ever been in.

All go and no show. They are good knives.

That was kind of my point in posting this. I was on the meats team in college, worked at the meat lab, several deer processors, etc. I’ve been in quite a few beef and pork plants. What they all have in common: inexpensive, quality knives.

My dad was into selling the used knives from the packing plants. I have some of them, still good and sharp as all get out.
He was at the biggest flea market in Houston one weekend and some cops stopped by. Told him they were wondering where all the knives they had been getting off of perps was coming from, LOL. Certain areas down there, that the first thing they checked was for "boners" stuck in between the layers of the leather uppers of boots. They told him they bet 95% had a boner stuck in there. He told him they ought to thank him for helping them thin the herd. He told em, look around, they get tanked up here, wearing their best duds, showing off their women and by nightfall they will be slashing each other up. All the while the older mothers were buying boners and skinners from him for 5 for $15 elbowing the cops out of the way.
They did the same thing at Waco, Weatherford and Ft.Worth when I went with him.
He got those knives in by the plastic 55 gallon drums, 4-5 barrels at a time.

Dexter Russell is another fine packer knife maker. ****But.**** All those knives are made by robots. This forum is about craftsmanship, creativity and quality. Your coming off like someone who will go into a room full of master chefs and extoll the virtues of fried bologna. Kinda sad if you ask me.

If you’re really “sad” about some post on a knife; you need to get a life.

The name of this forum is knives. Not craftsmanship, creativity, or quality.

I have the same knife. I use it for cutting the rib cages out of crappie fillets. good knife. I have a set of bigger ones in my kitchen drawer. Good knives also.

It's kind of the Glock of knives. Works great, looks like snot.

Interesting story.

that is the ?

I got this old buck lockblade like 10 or 11 years ago on sale and carried it almost ievery day since. Broke the tip off 2 or three times and just kept using it. Filed the backside ofthe tip down with a bastard file last night and touched up the edge, voila. I guess it's a drop point now.

I bet that took some effort. Those blades are normally pretty hard! Good save!

A knife is something that you create a relationship with, the curves, the fine lines, the beauty, the trust,
the feel, the lasting scars when you used it 45 years ago to clean game and your sons witnessed it; and they want that knife. Kind of hard to do with a disposable knife; much like a black gun.

I never had a victrinox, until I read this thread, and got a cheap one on amazon for $7. For that price point, it is a sharp little knife!

If you say so. How many of us have grandpa’s old case trapper? Or cast iron skillet? Or junky old 22 that wasn’t worth buying when it was new?

I’m guessing you only wear custom boots, shoot bespoke shotguns, and order dry-aged wagyu to be used for dog treats.

A knife is a tool.

I also really enjoy my black rifles even though they are not up to everyone's memory-making standards.

And I think my point is made; not much memory for you guys. To each his own.

Yep. I’m pretty forgetful.

If it feels good, use it. Over the years, I've come to believe in good steel for knives. Usually good steel costs more. If it feels good, use it

About 15 years ago I bought two "Chef" Knives at Wal-Mart, the ones where the handle and the blade are one piece.

I always pick one of them for a kitchen chore instead of one of the fancy German or Japanese knives. They take an edge, they work as advertised, and if I have to do something like debone a deer shoulder or something like that I am not afraid to mess one up.

They are tools. Kinda junky tools, but they still work .

Just my .02,
LeonCarr